Smollett is a national joke whose only hope of employment is to allow himself to be exploited as a sideshow freak in some straight-to-DVD dreck looking to turn Smollett’s status as a pariah into free publicity.
Fox TV announced late Tuesday that Jussie Smollett will not be returning for Empire’s sixth season.
Ratings for Fox series ‘Empire’ continue to be in the gutter as Jussie Smollett starred in his last episode of the season Wednesday.
While Cook County prosecutors may have let Empire actor Jussie Smollett off for allegedly staging a hate crime against himself, one legal expert predicts the city of Chicago could still cause him major issues. Chicago officials last Thursday announced plans to file
The Illinois Prosecutors Bar Association (IPBA) has condemned Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx for her handling of the Jussie Smollett case, calling her dismissal of the charges, and public statements, unethical and misleading.
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s spokeswoman suggests Jussie Smollett was treated like everyone else, but a simple internet search turns up numerous people facing sentencing, fines, and more for doing exactly what Smollett allegedly did.
Although the charges that Jussie Smollett allegedly filed a false report were dropped, others charged for the same thing, but lacking Hollywood or political ties, have been prosecuted and sentenced.
Jussie Smollett’s community service consisted of 18 hours’ volunteering for Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition on Saturday and Monday.
The stunning end to Jussie Smollett’s case may be something typically Chicagoan: namely, a favor to a political patron.
Chicago Police Department superintendent Eddie Johnson is reportedly furious that charges against Hollywood actor Jussie Smollett were dropped by Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx on Tuesday.
A promotional video for the Fox series Empire posted online is notably missing one of its stars, the now-indicted felon Jussie Smollett.
Musician Queen Latifah said in a new interview that she still supports indicted felon Jussie Smollett because she hasn’t seen “definitive proof” that he staged an attack against himself, as Chicago police now believe.
“Saturday Night Live” mocked now-alleged felon Jussie Smollett, saying that the “Empire” actor “broke humanity” with his hate hoax.
Actress Ellen Page addressed her role in promoting the Jussie Smollett hate hoax in an op-ed published Wednesday and refused to apologize to President Donald Trump and Vice President Pence for blaming them for the “attack.”
At this point, Smollett has no choice but to continue to claim he’s innocent. The kind of heartfelt confession that might salvage his career could also put him in a jail cell.
Embattled Empire actor and now-alleged felon Jussie Smollett went after President Donald Trump in a taped, but unaired, episode of TNT’s “Drop the Mic.r”
Smollett might have been popular prior to his claim of being the victim of a racist and homophobic attack by a couple of white Trump supporters, but ever since, the Empire production has been one of chaos and distraction.
Tell me again how the media are not the enemy of the American people. What does an enemy do if not use lies to divide us, to create hostility where none existed before?
Actor Jussie Smollett had recently hosted an episode on lynching for the documentary series “America Divided.” The Epix network has since pulled the episode featuring the embattled actor after the actor was arrested and charged of disorderly conduct for filing a false police report.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said Thursday that she couldn’t yet “make sense” of Empire actor Jussie Smollett being arrested for filing a false police report about being attacked by Trump supporters in Chicago.
During a press conference Thursday, Cook County Assistant District Attorney Ressa Lanier described how Empire actor Jussie Smollett planned an attack on himself and how he tried to mislead police in detail.
The ADL said the attack on Jussie Smollet reflected bigotry in America. The ADL has not responded since Smollett’s arrest.
Jussie Smollett told Robin Roberts he directed police to a security camera he hoped had filmed the “attack.” It was facing the wrong way.
Establishment media journalists and pundits uncritically accepted and promoted Jussie Smollett’s elaborate “hate crime” story.
A Drake University student is facing charges and possible expulsion after it was discovered she sent racist notes to herself and others, in what turned out to be an elaborate hate crime hoax.
Authorities have arrested and charged a woman in Long Island for making up a story about a Trump-related hate crime, police said.
Police in Toronto, Ontario, say that an 11-year-old Muslim girl, who claimed attackers tried to cut off her hijab, lied about the attack.
Three African-American University at Albany students who allegedly falsely reported a hate crime have now been given probation and community service.
Israeli authorities have arrested a 19-year-old suspect in connection with dozens of hoax bomb threats to Jewish community centers in the United States and around the world. ABC News reports that the unnamed suspect is a dual U.S.-Israel citizen.
A Muslim University of Michigan student will not be charged with a felony after she faked a hate crime attack alleging that a white man threatened to light her hijab on fire.
